Carriage-step



D. & E. Z. LITTLE. CARRIAGE STEP.

No. 4,795. Patented Oct. 7, 1846.

' STATES OFFICE.

DAVID LITTLE AND E. Z. LITTLE, OF GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

CARRIAGE-STEP.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 4,795, dated October 7, 1846.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, D. LITTLE and E. Z.LITTLE, of Gettysburg, in the county of Adams and State of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Carriage-Steps, and thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of the principleor character which distinguishes itfrom all other things before knownand of the manner of making, constructing, and using the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, making part of thisspecification, in which- Figure 1 is a plan of part of the underside ofa carriage, and Fig. 2, a side elevation.

The same letters indicate like parts in both figures.

The nature of our invention consists in causing the steps to be swiveledround under the carriage when folded up out of the way of the mud anddirt thrown from the wheels, and without turning them up inside of thecarriage.

The construction is as follows: the steps are made with two, three, ormorejoints to fold up in the ordinary way, (as shown in the drawings) orto be turned down as at (b). The steps are attached to the body by asingle bolt (0), on which they can be swiveled round a quarter of thecircle. There is a projection of the shank (d) of the steps beyond thebolt (0) as shown at (6) Fig. 1, which extends out to a segment plate(f) of a quarter of a circle in length and attached to the bottoni ofthe carriage; at each end of this plategither'e is a stop or notch tohold the step in fitsproper position when turned out or in the end (6)of the shank of the step has a slight spring to it so that when the stepis in proper position, it will hold in the notch in the plate. The bolt(0) should be firmly secured by passing up through the frame work of thebody or in any other efficient manner.

What we claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patentis- Constructing the steps and attaching them to the body of thecarriage in the manner described so as to allow them to be turned underthe body when not in use and held in either position, as described.

DAVID LITTLE. ESAIAS Z. LITTLE Witnesses:

JOHN GRISELMAN, J. B. DANNER.

